"Max Power" wrote in message
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DRM : 7 bit ASCII teletype 'subchannel' : possible elemination of numbers
stations as an end product!

One forgets that DRM technology is improving all the time.
In 3 or 4 years a very portable DRM reciver, with a menu system could be
reprogrammed via a smart card.
A smart card or memory card (possibly with with a keypad and display) has
all the crypto power one needs.

But the problem is, what happens when you are searched by the foreign
intelligence agency and they find this thing, with all its crypto software?
Or what happens when they search your apartment or hotel room while you are
out and find it?

The beauty about numbers stations is that a shortwave receiver has no crypto
software in it. And it alone is not incriminating.

--
Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc